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Title: PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers
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Components: Distutils Versions: Python 3.1, Python 2.7
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Status: open Resolution:
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Assigned To: Nosy List: lemburg
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Created on 2008-08-26 08:32 by lemburg, last changed 2008-08-26 08:32 by lemburg.

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msg71970 (view) Author: Marc-Andre Lemburg (lemburg) Date: 2008-08-26 08:32 
The PKG-INFO file currently only provides an "Authors" field which is
mapped to the DistributionMetadata.get_contact() information.

However, the latter method is really meant to provide access to contact
information and not authorship, which is why it prefers the maintainer
infos over the actual author infos.

As a result, the maintainer can appear as author in the PKG-INFO file,
which is wrong.

Ideal would be to have both an "Author" and "Maintainer" field in the
PKG-FILE with 1-1 mappings to the setup() parameters.
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